Burnett is a Grammy Award nominee for her recording of the 2013 memoir that chronicled her daughter’s teenage struggle with addiction, emergence as an actress and writer and, in January 2002, Hamilton’s lung cancer death at age 38.

Jay Z easily led Grammy Award nominations announced Friday with nine, but left-of-center rappers Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Kendrick Lamar were among a group of new stars who took many of the major nominations.

The theme of this year’s nominations could be taken in a number of ways, but when you look at the contenders up for all-powerful Album of the Year category, one thing is certain: it’s the year of the underdogs and the newcomers.